Trade ministry in Seoul said Thursday that South Korea will extend financial support for companies affected by reimposed sanctions on Iran and explore business opportunities in alternative markets to minimize fallouts to the local economy. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy convened a meeting with trade promotion agencies and banks, as well as local […]

Iran’s U21 national football team was held by Saudi Arabia in the first game of 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. In a Wednesday match at the Wibawa Mukti Stadium in Cikarang, Iran’s encounter with the traditional rival, Saudi Arabia, ended with a no-no draw. As the game’s stats demonstrate, both teams had 50 percent of […]

With more than half of summer already passed, farmers in the northern province of Gilan have started harvesting rice from the paddy fields. Planting season begins in mid-spring when the weather gets warm in the region. Rice seeds are first planted close together in one flooded paddy and grows into seedlings that will be transplanted […]

Young Iranian volleyball players have reached the final match in the Asian AVC CUP which is held in Taiwan. The 2018 Asian Men’s Volleyball Cup, so-called 2018 AVC Cup for Men is the sixth edition of the Asian Men’s Volleyball Cup and organized by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC). The tournament kicked off on August […]

TEHRAN – German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier on Sunday criticized the U.S. sanctions against Iran, the first set of which came into force last Monday. “We do not let Washington dictate trade relations with other countries and therefore stand by the Vienna nuclear agreement,” Altmaier said, Politico reported. In a joint statement last week, the […]

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Sat. that Turkey was preparing to trade with its top trade partners like China, Russia, Iran and Ukraine and even European countries in local currencies instead of the US dollar. According to Turkey’s Daily Sabah English website, the Turkish president made the remarks while addressing the ruling Justice and […]

TEHRAN- The U.S. exports to Iran reached $59.7 million during the first half of 2018 registering a 47 percent rise from the figure for last year’s same period, the latest report released by American Statistical Association (ASA) showed. Exports from the United States to Iran stood at $40.5 million during the first half of 2017, […]

Iranian foreign minister has responded to the US president’s claim that the US is sanctioning Iran for the sake of the world peace by saying the international relations is not the realm of beauty contests. “International relations is not a beauty pageant, with tired clichés about a desire for World Peace,” Mohammad Javaz Zarif has […]

Iraq does not agree with U.S. sanctions against Iran but will abide by them to protect its own interests, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday. “As a matter of principle we are against sanctions in the region. Blockade and sanctions destroy societies and do not weaken regimes,” he said at a news conference. “We […]

Chairman of the Russian Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky condemned US measures to mount pressure on Tehran and Moscow by slapping sanctions, saying that his country will extend full support to Iran in the face of pressures.In a meeting with Chairman of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Heshmatollah Falahat-Pisheh, he added that […]